President Javier Milei celebrated his stunning victory in midterm elections Sunday as a "turning point" for the country and vowed to charge ahead with his reform agenda.
"Today we reached a turning point, today begins the construction of a great Argentina," he told supporters at a victory party in Buenos Aires.
Milei's La Libertad Avanza (LLA) party rebounded from a series of setbacks to win more than 40 percent of the votes cast for members of Congress, while the opposition Peronist coalition, Fuerza Patria, and its allies trailed with around 31 percent.
Here are the winners and losers from another dramatic election night in Argentina.
Winners
President Javier Milei
The President nationalised the campaign and has secured a highly positive result for the second half of his term in office. Support from the United States to stabilise Argentina’s currency, the peso, before the elections gave him breathing room to
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